Vance contacted the leadership of Iran. He is trying to convince Trump not to hit the country. US Vice President J. Dee Vance sent a letter to the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Razai. He is trying to see if Tehran and Washington can find enough common ground to convince Trump not to give a final order for a short but intense strike on Iran in the coming weeks. Razai's letter was sent at Trump's direction, claims one of the Wall Street Journal's sources. The WSJ names Mohsen Razai, the longest-serving commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps in the 1980s, as one of Iran's most influential hardliners.